Both the cassette version of the original 1987 release and the 1990 CD reissue were sold with reversible cover art. When sold in stores, the visible side was a full sheet of white with the band's logo, the album name reading as !!!**** You!!!, and a subhead that read "The Record THEY tried to ban". A Parental Advisory logo appeared in the lower right corner on the CD. The original cover art was able to be used if the booklet/J-card was opened and reversed by creasing the cover the opposite way.[1] One pressing was sold in a black plastic bag.[2] As of 2006, Fuck You had sold over 6,000 copies in the U.S. since the beginning of the SoundScan era.[3]

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Overkill (band)
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Overkill is an American thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. They have gone through many changes, leaving singer Bobby Blitz Ellsworth. Verni as the only constant members, in addition to Ellsworth and Verni, Overkills current lineup includes Dave Linsk on lead guitar, Derek The Skull Tailer on rhythm guitar and Ron Lipnicki on drums. The band has a mascot named Chaly, a skeletal bat with a skull-like face, horns, bony wings. Chaly has appeared on most of their album covers, to date, Overkill has released eighteen studio albums, one album of cover songs, three EPs and three live albums. Overkill first reached substantial success with their second album and Atlantic debut, Taking Over. After their split from Atlantic in 1995, Overkill went through some label changes, as of 2006, Overkill has sold over 625,000 albums in the U. S. since the beginning of the SoundScan era, and over 16 million records worldwide as of 2012. Overkill was formed in 1980 from the ashes of the punk band The Lubricunts, featuring Rat Skates, Verni and Skates placed an ad looking for a guitarist and singer which was answered by guitarist Robert Pisarek and singer Bobby Ellsworth and the first incarnation of Overkill was formed. After rejecting several names, including Virgin Killer, the band settled on Overkill. Early covers, especially those done under the Virgin Killers name, were songs by Connor Neeson, The Ramones, Aron mc Garrigle, The Dead Boys. By late 1980 the setlist was made up of songs by such as Motörhead, Judas Priest. Along with the new influx of heavy metal covers, the band played a smattering of punk covers, with extra distortion, intensity. At this point, the band started writing songs, including Grave Robbers, Overkill. More songs would follow, including Death Rider and Rotten to the Core, the band became a staple at New York and New Jersey clubs, such as LAmours. Verni gave Ellsworth the nickname Blitz due to his over-the-top lifestyle, in 1983, the lineup of Rat Skates, D. D. Power in Black gained the two compilation appearances. Feel the Fire was included on New York Metal 84 and Death Rider appeared on volume V of the legendary Metal Massacre series, Megaforce signed Overkill to a new multi-album record contract and released their full-length debut album Feel the Fire in 1985. Hailed by many critics and fans as a metal masterpiece

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Cleveland
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Cleveland is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the states second most populous county. The city proper has a population of 388,072, making Cleveland the 51st largest city in the United States, Greater Cleveland ranked as the 32nd largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 2,055,612 people in 2016. The city is the center of the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area, the city is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border. Clevelands economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Residents of Cleveland are called Clevelanders, Cleveland has many nicknames, the oldest of which in contemporary use being The Forest City. Cleaveland oversaw the plan for what would become the downtown area, centered on Public Square, before returning home. The first settler in Cleaveland was Lorenzo Carter, who built a cabin on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, the Village of Cleaveland was incorporated on December 23,1814. In spite of the swampy lowlands and harsh winters, its waterfront location proved to be an advantage. The area began rapid growth after the 1832 completion of the Ohio, growth continued with added railroad links. Cleveland incorporated as a city in 1836, in 1836, the city, then located only on the eastern banks of the Cuyahoga River, nearly erupted into open warfare with neighboring Ohio City over a bridge connecting the two. Ohio City remained an independent municipality until its annexation by Cleveland in 1854, the citys prime geographic location as a transportation hub on the Great Lakes has played an important role in its development as a commercial center. Cleveland serves as a point for iron ore shipped from Minnesota. In 1870, John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in Cleveland, other manufacturers located in Cleveland produced steam-powered cars, which included White and Gaeth, as well as the electric car company Baker. Because of the significant growth, Cleveland was known as the Sixth City during this period, by 1920, due in large part to the citys economic prosperity, Cleveland became the nations fifth largest city. The city counted Progressive Era politicians such as the populist Mayor Tom L. Johnson among its leaders, many prominent Clevelanders from this era are buried in the historic Lake View Cemetery, including President James A. Garfield, and John D. Rockefeller. In commemoration of the centennial of Clevelands incorporation as a city, conceived as a way to energize a city after the Great Depression, it drew four million visitors in its first season, and seven million by the end of its second and final season in September 1937. The exposition was housed on grounds that are now used by the Great Lakes Science Center, following World War II, the city experienced a prosperous economy. In sports, the Indians won the 1948 World Series, the hockey Barons became champions of the American Hockey League, as a result, along with track and boxing champions produced, Cleveland was dubbed City of Champions in sports at this time

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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu

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Thrash metal
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Thrash metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its fast tempo and overall aggression. The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, the lyrics often deal with social issues and reproach for The Establishment, using direct and denunciatory language, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk. The genre evolved in the early 1980s from combining the fast drum beats and attitude of hardcore with the double bass drumming, heavy and complex guitar style of the new wave of British heavy metal. It emerged partially as a reaction to the conventional and widely acceptable glam metal. Thrash metal was an inspiration for subsequent extreme genres such as death metal, Four American bands—Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, and Slayer—are credited with pioneering and popularizing the genre. The Clash of the Titans tour, which featured Megadeth, Slayer, thrash metal has seen a resurgence in recent times, with many of the older bands returning to their roots with their new releases. A new generation of metal bands emerged in the early 2000s. Thrash metal generally features fast tempos, low-register, complex riffs, high-register guitar solos. The genre evolved in the early 1980s from combining the drum beats of hardcore punk with the style of the new wave of British heavy metal. It emerged partially as a reaction to the conventional and widely acceptable glam metal. The rhythm guitar parts are played with distortion and often palm muted to create a tighter. Vocally, thrash metal can employ anything from singing to shouted vocals. The guitar riffs often use chromatic scales and emphasize the tritone and diminished intervals, for example, the intro riff of Metallicas Master of Puppets is a chromatic descent, followed by a chromatic ascent based on the tritone. Speed, pacing and time-changes also define thrash metal, thrash tends to have an accelerating feel which may be due in large part to its aggressive drumming style. For example, drummers often use two drums, or a double-bass pedal, in order to create a relentless, driving beat. Cymbal stops/chokes are often used to transition from one riff to another or to precede an acceleration in tempo, to keep up with the other instruments, many bassists use a plectrum. However, some prominent thrash metal bassists have used their fingers, such as Frank Bello, Greg Christian, Steve DiGiorgio, Robert Trujillo, several bassists use a distorted bass tone, an approach popularized by Burton and Motörheads Lemmy. Lyrical themes in thrash metal include warfare, corruption, injustice, murder, suicide, isolation, alienation, addiction, in addition, politics, particularly pessimism and dissatisfaction towards politics, are common themes among thrash metal bands

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Extended play
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An extended play is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. EPs generally do not contain as many tracks as albums, and are considered less expensive, an EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well. Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, EPs—originally extended-play single releases that are shorter than traditional albums—have long been popular with punk, in the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of length or four tracks. EPs were released in various sizes in different eras, the earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were vertically cut 78 rpm discs known as 2-in-1 records. These had finer than usual grooves, like Edison Disc Records, by 1949, when the 45 rpm single and 33 1⁄3 rpm LP were competing formats, seven-inch 45 rpm singles had a maximum playing time of only about four minutes per side. Partly as an attempt to compete with the LP introduced in 1948 by rival Columbia, RCA Victor introduced Extended Play 45s during 1952. Their narrower grooves, achieved by lowering the levels and sound compression optionally. These were usually 10-inch LPs split onto two seven-inch EPs or 12-inch LPs split onto three seven-inch EPs, either separately or together in gatefold covers. This practice became less common with the advent of triple-speed-available phonographs. Some classical music albums released at the beginning of the LP era were distributed as EP albums—notably the seven operas that Arturo Toscanini conducted on radio between 1944 and 1954. These opera EPs, originally broadcast on the NBC Radio network and manufactured by RCA, in the 1990s, they began appearing on compact discs. During the 1950s, RCA published several EP albums of Walt Disney movies and these usually featured the original casts of actors and actresses. Each album contained two seven-inch records, plus an illustrated booklet containing the text of the recording, so that children could follow along by reading. Some of the titles included Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and what was then a recent release, because of the popularity of 7 and other formats, SP records became less popular and the production of SPs in Japan was suspended in 1963. In the 1950s and 1960s, EPs were usually compilations of singles or album samplers and were played at 45 rpm on seven-inch discs. Record Retailer printed the first EP chart in 1960, the New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Disc and Music Echo and the Record Mirror continued to list EPs on their respective singles charts. The Beatles Twist and Shout outsold most singles for some weeks in 1963, when the BBC and Record Retailer commissioned the British Market Research Bureau to compile a chart it was restricted to singles and EPs disappeared from the listings. In the Philippines, seven-inch EPs marketed as mini-LPs were introduced in 1970, with tracks selected from an album and this mini-LP format also became popular in America in the early 1970s for promotional releases, and also for use in jukeboxes

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D. D. Verni
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Verni, is an American bassist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the founding member, bassist and songwriter of thrash metal legends Overkill. Overkill released their first record in 1985 and with their contemporaries helped define a new genre of music…, over the last 28 years Overkill have released 18 full-length albums as well as 2 live albums and EP’s, and several DVD’s. They have done thousands of shows for millions of fans and toured every country on earth. They have graced the pages of major music publication and have sold millions of records worldwide. Verni’s signature bass sound is regarded as one of the most definable in heavy metal, in addition to his work with Overkill, Verni has recorded four albums with his side project The Bronx Casket Co. He is also the composer for The Bronx Casket Co. A New Musical, in 1976, Verni met Lee Rat Skates Kundrat in high school, who had been learning to play drums since age 15. The group disbanded in 1980, and Verni, along with bandmate Skates, Bobby Blitz Ellsworth answered the ad, and brought guitarist Rob Pisarek. After rejecting several names, the band settled on Overkill. Early covers, were songs by The Ramones, The Dead Boys. By late 1980, the band had recruited dual guitarists, and the setlist was made up of songs by such as Motörhead, Judas Priest. Along with the new influx of heavy metal covers, the band played a smattering of punk covers, with extra distortion, intensity. At this point, the band started writing songs, including Grave Robbers, Overkill. More songs would follow, including Death Rider and Rotten To The Core, in 1983 Rich left and Bobby Gustafson remained as the sole guitarist. The band became a staple at New York and New Jersey clubs, such as LAmours, Verni has been the sole songwriter for the music of Overkill since Horrorscope

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Parental Advisory
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The Parental Advisory label is a warning label first introduced by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1985 and later adopted by the British Phonographic Industry in 2011. It is placed on audio recordings in recognition of excessive profanities or inappropriate references, recordings with the Parental Advisory label are often released alongside censored versions that reduce or eliminate the questionable material. However, the label has been questioned for its ineffectiveness in limiting the amount of inappropriate material that young audiences are exposed to. Shortly after their formation in April 1985, the Parents Music Resource Center assembled a list of fifteen songs with deemed unsuitable content, particular criticism was placed on Darling Nikki by Prince, after the daughter of PMRC co-founder Mary Tipper Gore recognized its references to masturbation. Notable musicians, Frank Zappa, Dee Snider, and John Denver each testified at this hearing with strong opposition to PMRC’s warning label system, and censorship in general. In 1990, the now standard black-and-white warning label design reading Parental Advisory, the first album to bear the black ahd white Parental Advisory label was the 1990 release of Banned in the USA by the rap group 2 Live Crew. By May 1992, approximately 225 records had been marked with the warning, in response to later hearings in the following years, it was reworded as Parental Advisory, Explicit Content in 1996. The Parental Advisory label was first used on music streaming services and that year, the British Phonographic Industry revised its own music censorship policies to incorporate more prominent usage of the warning label. The BPI additionally requests that racist, homophobic, misogynistic or other language or behavior be taken under consideration when determining the appropriateness of a record. American retailers including Best Buy and f. y. e, distribute explicit and censored records, Target has sold both varieties of a given record, although has occasionally offered only the explicit version depending on the product. Online music stores, including the iTunes Store, generally have the Parental Advisory logo embedded into digital files, since its introduction, the effectiveness of the Parental Advisory label has frequently been called into question. Jon Wiederhorn from MTV News suggested that artists benefited from the label,1 by White Zombie in his childhood. In contrast, the RIAA maintains that its not a PAL Notice that kids look for and it is fairly common for an album which received the Parental Advisory seal to be sold alongside an edited version which removes objectionable content, usually to the same level as a radio edit. However, the RIAA Uniform Guidelines say An Edited Version need not remove all potentially objectionable content from the sound recording and these albums are packaged nearly-identically to their explicit counterparts, usually with the only indicator being the lack of Parental Advisory seal. Most of the time, the version will only edit the content which is absolutely necessary. The edited version of Life After Death is notable for having so many tracks omitted that it was able to be condensed to one disc in spite of being a double album. The edited version of an album will normally edit to the level in which the content would be considered appropriate for radio airplay, strong language is almost always edited out, in addition to racial slurs. Specific drug references are usually edited out, primarily slang terms for illegal drugs

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Taking Over (Overkill album)
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Taking Over is the second studio album by thrash metal band Overkill, released in March 1987 through Atlantic and Megaforce Records. The album is Overkills last to feature drummer Rat Skates, who left the later in 1987 and was replaced by Sid Falck. It was also the first to be released through Atlantic, who would all of the bands albums up to W. F. O. Overkill toured for less than a year to promote Taking Over, in March–April 1987 they opened for Helloween on their Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I tour in Europe, and supported Megadeth on their Peace Sells. Overkill then headlined their own shows in July–August, with Testament opening. The album was Overkills first to chart on the U. S. Billboard 200, reaching No.191 and remaining on that chart for a week, it remains the bands second lowest chart position to date. In 2005, Taking Over was ranked No.450 in Rock Hard magazines book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time, Bobby Blitz Ellsworth – lead vocals, production Bobby Gustafson – guitar, production Rat Skates – drums, production D. D. Verni – bass, background vocals, production Alex Perialas – engineering, mixing, production Tom Coyne – mastering Stephen Innocenzi – mastering Jon Zazula – executive production

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Under the Influence (Overkill album)
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Under the Influence is the third studio album by thrash metal band Overkill, released on July 5,1988 through Megaforce Records. This was Overkills first album to feature drummer Sid Falck, who had replaced Rat Skates when the left the band in 1987 during the Taking Over tour. Overkill toured for six months to promote Under the Influence, touring alongside thrash acts Nuclear Assault, M. O. D. From October to December 1988, the band toured the United States with Slayer and Motörhead, followed by a European tour with Slayer and Nuclear Assault, which took place in January 1989. The album reached No.142 on the U. S. Billboard 200 and remained on chart for thirteen weeks. It is also their third highest-charting album to date, with over 300,000 copies sold worldwide as of 1997, all tracks written by Bobby Gustafson, D. D. Bobby Blitz Ellsworth – lead vocals, production Bobby Gustafson – guitar, background vocals, production Sid Falck – drums, production D. D